Mouse <mo...@rodents-montreal.org> writes: >> The problem is third-party software assumes epoll == Linux, > > Software that makes stupid assumptions will never go away. > > Is it better to work around it (not ship epoll.h), or to get it fixed > (report it upstream as the bug it is)? I could argue that either way.
I don't really see it as a bug. You'd have to have all those problems have configure logic that says if we find an epoll implementation, then we have a list of operating systems that have implemented an epoll that has different semantics and we have to reject it It seems far more reasonable to say that if an OS implements a different epoll, then it should call it something else.
